Saturday, 22 March 2014

Bravely Default - UNACCEPTABLE! -but actually really awesome

So first I just have to mention how much the female protagonist reminds me of the earl of lemongrab! Seriously not everything in the world is unacceptable you whiny woman :D
OK so best ever 3DS RPG. Totally amazing and graphically one of the best 3D games so far, amazing soundtrack and interesting characters.
Ringabel, apart from having a stupid name is one of my faves, the typical womanizing young man. Edea is the feisty attention of his affections who always knocks him back. In fact I kind of wish these two were the main characters because Tiz has the personality of a plank and Agnes is naive and brain washed and doesn't really care about anyone but crystals and her fairy(big mistake love). Even with the nonexistant personality of these characters I still LOVED this game and story.
The job roles were diverse and interesting and made it hellishly complicated for me to decide what role everyone suited. In the end I finally had Edea as a ninja duel wielding magic swords. Ringabell went through an attractive thief outfit to finishing as my dragoon style dark knight (story made sense to go there). Agnes was magicsy and Tiz went from paladin to healer.
The only issue is towards the end of the game was a very repetitive scenario that was good for grinding but it kind of got a bit annoying. I prefer this kinds of situations to be optional and not thrust upon me in my story. This way I know when I can finish and carry on but because I didn't know how long it would take to get through I rushed through it.

Absolutely loved the little play on words with the title at the end and still works with the original title of Flying Fairy as well as where the fairy flies.

Saturday, 15 February 2014

Virtues Last Reward...Virtue is a dick

After seeing Cass playing the prequel to this game I was quite intrigued to give it a go myself, I somehow managed to completley forget that I wanted to play it until this sequel came out however so thought I would give it a go.
During the first few hours of gameplay I was thinking that I was heading into some crazy horror 'Saw' kind of scenario, this facade kept up for quite a while until you realize there is some timey wimey kind of stuff happening and it turns out what you thought was an insane rabbit set on murder is actually an elaborate scheme to save the world.
So there's a crazy pink hippy rabbit trapping nine people in an abandoned facility and they have to escape rooms and be badass at game theory and basically get nine points to escape. Once the escape hatch opens though everyone else is trapped indefinatley. This rabbit loves the number nine...like weird....
You have the basic protagonist male, Sigma...student...bit of alright....lets be friends and save everyone..and also the main female protagonist, Phi...bit of alright and moody (because that 'I'm gonna kick you in the balls if you speak to me' kind of look is what all the guys want nowadays apparently. There's Alice the bitch dressed as an egyptian prostitute, Clover the ditsy sidekick, Dio the 'circus ringleader' who I must admit is an absolute knobhead, Tetsu...someone...grumpy oldman, Quark the annoying brat, Luna the charming nurse and K the mystery armor man, who is actually pretty awesome in this line up. Surprisingly the game was actually pretty good, even with this mass of utterly balls characters, I guess they worked in a team dynamic.
Overall nice escape the room game that got me thinking and took up a surprising amount of time. If I have to see any more electronic doors open and me travelling as a little dot on a map again, I think I might throw my DS in the canal though...

Friday, 24 January 2014

Will Mr. Jeremey ever find love?

6 months after the initial lend date and 65hours of playtime and I have finally completed Persona. Got to say I am feeling the Squenix love at the moment. I am now eager to get playing Persona 3! Considering I usually get a bit bored of the standard dungeon crawler I have to day this was awesome. Repetitive dungeon crawling was broken up with part time jobs, social links, education etc. And after some false endings I think I finally managed to get the ending I deserved after all that grinding :D
Awesome soundtrack and very replayable I recommend to anyone who loves a good story based RPG. This is one of those games with a lot of fan fiction going around about the suitable love interests for each character. In my opinion I have gone for a Rise-Teddie approach, classic Yosuke-Chie, Yukiko gets no-one(I don't like her), Mr Jeremey and hopefully a character from P3 and Kanji-Naoto. Favourite characters have to be Naoto and Kanji as the nice quirky comic relief, but also got a soft spot for Teddie. Dojima is a boss and the magical healing fox in an apron is super cute! The story concept for this game is so out there (yet awesome) I am seriously wondering how the hell someone came up with it.
BEST SOUNDTRACK EVER!

Thursday, 31 October 2013

Pokemon X!

This new pokemon game is the best yet, no doubt about it! I'm even impressed with all the new pokemon models(although I still kind find it in my heart to allow klefki into my party) and it's been a nice refresh to see all the classics in 3D as well.
So I set out from my moms house again for another adventure, when someone decides 'hey, you look like a a Pokemon trainer, I'm giving one away so you can choose which one you want.' And after careful consideration and a sneaky peaky at the final evolution(not having another Oshawott incident here) I decide on Froakie! I also make the decision that although old generation Pokemon are available from the start I'm only having noobs in my team, this shortly goes out the window when I get a free bulbasaur and lapras.....still no tangela :(. I haven't learnt any new pokemons names as I constantly rename them (feel the power of bruce!)...Bruce rules.
I love the new EV training system and amie screen, as well as berry growing and easier grinding. This makes my dream of having ALL pokemon at lv100 a little more realistic, yet still improbable.
My so called friends in this game are huge douches that literally come up to me at the start and not knowing me at all, say that we are besties now...:/ I really would like Bruce to flamethrower them in the face. Damn you Sharn....whatever your name is!
Like mentioned before EV training is fast and easy in this game and I can even get all my old Pokemon up to scratch with reset bags. My tangrowth will win a fight one day!
I'm still waiting on my dratini and tangela to appear but as I'm already at the elite four my hopes are simply dashed. I have caught my legendary X pokemon, the easiest catch of a legendary in history, and am now just exploring all the optional parts as I kind of sped through the story. I've got my perfect outfit, although apparently not classy enough for the snobs in lumoise city and I am going to wonder trade and friend safari it up to see what goodies I can get :D

I was feeling a little creative....

In the wake of the new pokemon game I was feeling inspired:

Saturday, 26 October 2013

Catbug

So I have been shown the cuteness that is catbug! OMG...